Let Me
The O’Brien Family Book Two
The O’Brien Family Book Two
By: Cecy Robson
Released April
19, 2016
Self-Published
Self-Published
Blurb
Once he was broken beyond repair. Now this MMA contender is fighting to be a better man—for her. RT Book Reviews proclaims that the O’Brien Family series from award-winning author Cecy Robson “has the hottest brothers ever!” And in Let Me, it is Finn’s turn to discover how love can heal the deepest wounds.
Once he was broken beyond repair. Now this MMA contender is fighting to be a better man—for her. RT Book Reviews proclaims that the O’Brien Family series from award-winning author Cecy Robson “has the hottest brothers ever!” And in Let Me, it is Finn’s turn to discover how love can heal the deepest wounds.
A mixed martial arts star on the rise, Finn
O’Brien dismantles his opponents with brutal precision. And yet beneath his
fierce persona, Finn is raw from a trauma he’s buried for years . . . until the
day his deep-rooted rage erupts and lands him in court-mandated therapy. Finn’s
not one to bare his soul, but if talking it out means meeting beautiful women like
Sol Marieles, he’ll give it a shot.
Sol is working toward her master’s degree in
psychology, and already she feels like she’s in over her head. With an
important internship on the line and a scary family situation demanding her
attention, the last thing Sol needs is Finn around to distract her. The man is
ripped and seriously sexy yet it’s his troubled side that warns her to keep her
distance. But their attraction is intense, and he clearly has the heat to see
how far and fast their passion takes them.
Alone, Finn and Sol have been fighting to
find happiness in their lives. Together, there’s no stopping them as they face
their greatest challenges—not in the ring, but in their hearts.
Excerpt:
I
lean against the tile with my arms spread, allowing the water to beat against
my back. It’s too hot. I should turn it down, but I don’t bother. Eventually,
like everything else, the sensation fades.
I’m
not sure how long I’m in that position. A few seconds? A few minutes? But then
Easton and his trainer Yefim are suddenly there. “You got lucky, O’Brien,”
Yefim calls out, taunting me with his thick eastern European accent.
Shit.
Like all the trash talk before the fight wasn’t enough.
“Did
you hear me, you pussy?” he fires back when I don’t answer. “Did you hear me,
you goddamn coward?”
Coward? Fuck you. It’s what I think, but not what I say,
focusing instead on the streams of water that gather along my feet before they
swirl into the drain.
It
doesn’t help. The rage that’s building, the one I only manage to barely keep
in? It stirs in my gut like a heavy pot filled with hate, sin, and all the
curses my Ma would still beat my ass for saying.
“What’re
you doing?” Yefim asks.
His voice is closer, he’s drawing near. I
doesn’t matter that I’m standing here naked. He wants to be next to me. I
shudder, that feeling I keep buried drilling its way up.
“I
know about you,” Yefim says, not bothering to keep his voice low. “But everyone
knows, don’t they? Even if you don’t want them to.”
My
body shakes a little more, but it’s not from the cooling water. It’s from his
words and all that anger they trigger. Don’t
do it. Don’t go there.
“You
like to keep it a secret. Don’t you, pussy?”
Yefim
laughs when I keep my trap shut. He thinks I’m backing down, just like Easton
did before his face met the mat. “He’s crying,” he calls out to Easton. “What?
Not so tough now?”
That’s
where he’s dead wrong. Every muscle I’ve conditioned serves a purpose―to take
down those who fuck with me. And right now, Yefim is seriously fucking with me.
“You
like to pretend that it’s girls you like, don’t you?” he says. “But that’s not
true, is it? Oh, no, that’s not true at all . . .”
I
raise my chin, knowing that someone’s not leaving without bleeding, and I’ve
bled enough tonight.
Yefim
kicks at my calf. “What? Nothing to say? Can’t speak without your boyfriend
here?”
“Boyfriend?”
Easton asks, laughing. “No fucking way.”
“Yes.
Way,” Yefim insists. “Didn’t you know this little pussy takes it up the ass―”
I
punch him so hard, I feel his teeth crack against my knuckles. For someone with
decades of boxing experience he never saw me coming. But I see Easton flying at
me out of the corner of my eye. I toss him over my shoulder, slamming him hard
onto the ceramic tile floor. Like in the octagon, I throw myself on top of him,
my fists colliding against his skin.
Voices
rush forward, telling me to stop. A woman screams, but I don’t stop fighting
off the bodies trying to grab me, breaking through the arms wrenching me back.
I need to hit him―I need to feel my fists meeting his face―I need to feel something.
God
damn it. I need to feel alive.
I
don’t want the pain.
I
don’t want the terror.
But
once more, it’s all I feel.
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Author
Info
Cecy Robson is a new adult and contemporary author
of the Shattered Past series, the O’Brien Family novels and upcoming Carolina
Beach novels, as well as the award-winning author of the Weird Girls urban
fantasy romance series. A 2016 double nominated RITA®finalist for
Once Pure and Once Kissed, Cecy is a recovering Jersey girl living in the South
who enjoys carbs way too much, and exercise way too little. Gifted and cursed
with an overactive imagination, you can typically find her on her laptop
silencing the yappy characters in her head by telling their stories.
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